In tech we made paper airplanes to learn about the forces of flight, wing design, and airplane design. Here are my two planes I made, they both have solid lift and thrust, but tend to suddenly drop in the middle of the flight. The drag doesn’t seem to be too heavy too. The wings on […]
To make licorice, they mix all the ingredients together and cook the licorice mixture up to make a malleable paste. Then, it’s shaped using very light compressive strength to make the twirls. Then a knife cuts the licorice with compressive strength so they are the right length. After they’re dried, the licorice shrivels up. Finally, it’s weighed and packed, and sent off to be sold.
This weekend I used and transferred soooooo much energy! We use and transfer energy all the time without thinking or noticing that we are. I transferred electrical energy into heat energy. I turned on a toaster that was plugged into an outlet, which transferred into heat. I also used energy by eating the toast that I made, which was chemical energy.
Energy is the ability to do work, it helps us do everyday things. Energy heats things up, moves them, pulls them. Energy is all around us. It can’t be created or destroyed, it’s just there, but energy can be transferred from one form to another. For example, electrical energy in the form of a wire plugged into an outlet can be transferred into heat energy, if the wire is connected to a toaster. Another example is chemical energy in the form of food can be transferred into motion energy of doing sports.
So far I have finished my flashlight and am going to start Vectornator. In Vectornator, you draw a design on the app and you send it to a laser cutting machine, which cuts wood. I’m going to make a bookmark.
I have decorated my flashlight with purple and black caps, black splatters and my initials in purple on my flashlight. I have partly soldered my flashlight. And am going to finish it tomorrow. I will also put my flashlight together and start on Vectornator, an app that imports drawings into a laser cutting machine, where we can cut out wood.
So far I have now cut my pipe and drilled the hole in one of the caps to put the led light in. Now I have to solder all of the cut, measured and stripped wires together and put them in my flashlight. Then I’ll be done with my flashlight.
So far in my flashlight, I have finished my blueprints and I am ready to start making my actual flashlight. I have already measured, cut and stripped 3 wires so I can make my circuit inside the flashlight. I have also measured out the length of my pipe and will be sawing it next class. I will then drill a hole in my pipe to add the switch, solder the circuit together and finish up my flashlight.
In tech we have been drawing up plans to make our flashlights. We were drawing the parts for them with blueprints so we could design our final flashlight. In my flashlight thee will be 3 wires, one pipe that I have to cut and 2 end pieces. Our flashlight also has to be waterproof!
In tech we have been leaning about 12 boys and their soccer coach that got stuck in a flooded cave. It was a really big cave and it would be really dangerous to try and swim out. That’s why the UN almost set up plans for the boys to try to stay in the cave for the whole monsoon season. They then realized that the cave could flood even more and they could die, meteorologists said that the weather would get worse until the monsoon season ended. So they sent some European cave divers to go get the boys. It was a very complex plan because of how dangerous the cave was. They ended up sedating the kids to calm them and each kid had been assigned a diver to carry them out the cave. In the end all the kids and their coach got out of the cave and were reunited with their family.